The history of landscape design in 100 gardens

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Cover; Title page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; More than Flowers: An Introduction; 1: Piety and Protection; Alhambra: Granada, Spain; Queen Eleanor's Garden: Winchester, England; San Pietro Abbey: Perugia, Italy; Prieuré Notre-Dame d'Orsan: Maisonnais, France; Old Palace at Hatfield House: Hertfordshire, England; 2: The Measure of Mankind Is Man; Villa Medici: Fiesole, Italy; Villa d'Este: Tivoli, Italy; Sacro Bosco (Bomarzo): Viterbo, Italy; Villa Lante: Bagnaia, Italy; Villa Aldobrandini: Frascati, Italy; 3: The Brink of Infinity; Isola Bella: Lake Maggiore, Italy.;An illustrated history of landscape design as told through iconic gardens from around the world. Cover Title page Copyright Dedication Contents Preface More than Flowers: An Introduction 1: Piety and Protection Alhambra: Granada, Spain Queen Eleanor's Garden: Winchester, England San Pietro Abbey: Perugia, Italy Prieuré Notre-Dame d'Orsan: Maisonnais, France Old Palace at Hatfield House: Hertfordshire, England 2: The Measure of Mankind Is Man Villa Medici: Fiesole, Italy Villa d'Este: Tivoli, Italy Sacro Bosco (Bomarzo): Viterbo, Italy Villa Lante: Bagnaia, Italy Villa Aldobrandini: Frascati, Italy 3: The Brink of Infinity Isola Bella: Lake Maggiore, Italy. Vaux-le-Vicomte: Maincy, France Palace of Versailles: Versailles, France Château de Chantilly: Chantilly, France Het Loo Palace: Apeldoorn, Netherlands 4: A World of Wonders L'Orto Botanico: Padua, Italy Hortus Botanicus: Leiden, the Netherlands Chelsea Physic Garden: London, England Bartram's Garden: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 5: Augustan and Arcadian Hadrian's Villa: Tivoli, Italy Castle Howard: Yorkshire, England Studley Royal: Yorkshire, England Rousham: Oxfordshire, England Stourhead: Wiltshire, England 6: Place-Making Stowe: Buckinghamshire, England. Petworth: West Sussex, England Blenheim: Oxfordshire, England Nuneham: Oxfordshire, England Parc Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Ermenonville, France Hawkstone Park: Shropshire, England 7: Gaiety and "Gloomth" Yuanming Yuan (Garden of Perfect Brightness, Old Summer Palace): Beijing, China Shizilin Yuan (Lion Grove Garden): Suzhou, China Zhuozheng Yuan (Garden of the Humble Administrator): Suzhou, China Wangshi Yuan (Master-of-Fishing Nets Garden): Suzhou, China Wrest Park: Bedfordshire, England Taj Mahal: Agra, India Sezincote: Gloucestershire, England Pope's Grotto: Twickenham, England. Strawberry Hill: Twickenham, England Painshill: Surrey, England 8: Three Men, Two Nations, One Passion John Whipple House: Ipswich, Massachusetts Middleton Place: near Charleston, South Carolina Mount Vernon: Mount Vernon, Virginia San Carlos Borromeo (Carmel Mission): Carmel-by-the-Sea, California Monticello: near Charlottesville, Virginia Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: London, England 9: Designing for Democracy Montgomery Place: Annandale-on-Hudson, New York Mount Auburn Cemetery: Cambridge, Massachusetts Springside: Poughkeepsie, New York Central Park: New York City, New York. Buffalo Park System: Buffalo, New York Biltmore: Asheville, North Carolina 10: Bedding-Out and Getting-On National Botanic Gardens of Ireland: Dublin, Ireland Cliveden: Buckinghamshire, England Princes Street Gardens: Edinburgh, Scotland Annapolis Royal Historic Gardens: Annapolis Royal, Canada 11: Searching for Earthly Paradise Anne Hathaway's Cottage and Gardens: Stratford-upon-Avon, England Kelmscott Manor: Oxfordshire, England Munstead Wood: Surrey, England Upton Grey Manor: Hampshire, England Royal Horticultural Society Rock Garden at Wisley: Surrey, England.